Base (stylized as BASE) is the third largest of

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

's three mobile

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s. It is a subsidiary of

Telenet Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched network which went into service in 1975. It was the first FCC-licensed public data network in the United States. Various commercial and government interests paid monthly fees for dedicated lines ...

. It competes with

Proximus Proximus (stylised as pro⌘imus; formerly known as Belgacom Mobile) is the largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications companies and is a part of Proximus Group (previously Belgacom Group). It competes with Orange Belgium and Base. ...

and

Orange Belgium Orange Belgium (known as Orange) is a Belgian telecommunications company. It competes with Proximus and Base. It was incorporated by France Télécom in 1996 under the name of Mobistar. The company re-branded as Orange on 9 May 2016 (following ...

. It was previously owned by

KPN KPN (in full Koninklijke KPN N.V., also Royal KPN N.V.) is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company. KPN originated from a government-run postal, telegraph and telephone service and is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. History Un ...

and sold to Telenet in 2015.

History

Base was founded as Belgium's third major mobile network operator in 1999 under the

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name of KPN Orange. It was a

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between the Dutch KPN Mobile and the then British

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telcos. After the acquisition of Orange by France Télécom, its shares were sold to KPN Mobile. In 2002, the brand name was changed from Orange to Base. The fixed line and broadband operations were started in 2007 after the acquisition of Tele2 Belgium. In October 2009 the

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and

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operations were rebranded from Tele2 to Base. In 2007, Base purchased the Belgian telecommunications retail store Allo Telecom, which merged with Base in 2014. In April 2015, news got out that Base is being bought by Telenet for 1,325 billion euros, which will give Telenet access to a mobile network. Base has an estimated 98% coverage of the country and 26% market share in mobile communications.

Technical information

The operator's display logo is BASE, the net code is 206 20 and operates under 900/1800 MHz GSM, 900/2100 MHz UMTS, 800/1800/2600 MHz LTE.

References

External links

* {{Belgian mobile operators Belgian brands Mobile phone companies of Belgium KPN